1.[obn]道德的concerned with principles of right and wrong behaviour
a moral issue/dilemma/question道德方面的议题╱困境╱问题
traditional moral values传统的道德观念
a decline in moral standards道德水准的下降
moral philosophy道德哲学
a deeply religious man with a highly developed moral sense道德意识极强的笃信宗教的人
The newspapers were full of moral outrage at the weakness of other countries.报纸总是道貌岸然地说别的国家不好。
2.[obn]道义上的；道德上的based on your own sense of what is right and fair, not on legal rights or duties
moral responsibility/duty道义上的责任╱义务
Governments have at least a moral obligation to answer these questions.政府至少在道义上有责任回应这些问题。
The job was to call on all her diplomatic skills and moral courage(= the courage to do what you think is right) .这项工作需要她发挥全部的外交才能和捍卫正义的勇气。
3.品行端正的；有道德的following the standards of behaviour considered acceptable and right by most people
He led a very moral life.他这个人一向很正派。
a very moral person品行非常端正的人
4.[obn]能辨别是非的able to understand the difference between right and wrong
Children are not naturally moral beings.儿童并非天生就能分辨是非。
1.[pl]品行，道德（尤指性关系方面）standards or principles of good behaviour, especially in matters of sexual relationships
Young people these days have no morals.现在的年轻人根本不讲道德。
The play was considered an affront to public morals .人们认为这出戏侮辱了公众道德。
a woman of loose morals(= with a low standard of sexual behaviour)放荡的女人
2.[c]寓意；教益a practical lesson that a story, an event or an experience teaches you
And the moral is that crime doesn't pay.寓意就是犯罪得不偿失。
Yet any moral superiority New Yorkers may feel should be tempered by the behaviour of the American embassy in London.
不过，美国大使馆在伦敦的行为会让纽约人可能产生的任何道德优越感都荡然无存。
In Celia's view, it was one more warning that the pharmaceutical business should accept moral obligation as well as legal ones.
在西利亚看来，它是对制药行业的再次警告，必须接受理应承担的道德义务和法律责任。
It was not a pleasant commentary on his own character and degree of moral stamina, to say the least.
至少，这也是在他自己的性格与道德程度上不愉快的解释。
He was not a man to feel any strong moral indignation even on account of trespasses against himself.
他这个人是哪怕自己遭到了侵犯，也不会萌发强烈的道义上的愤怒的。
One of the authors concluded part of our moral behavior is grounded into a specific part of our brains.
一名作者总结说我们的道德行为的一部分是基于我们大脑的特定部分。
He said he believed the charter represented the realities of the world and the moral code of the country.
他说，他相信宪章代表世界的现实和该国的道德准则。
Yet the syllabus for the Moral Education Center seems to lack a few essentials for meeting today's global super-rich.
不过，女性修养研修中心的课程表似乎缺少与现今的全球超级富豪结识的几个基本要素。
She was as tired as I was of our side getting beat and treating defeat as evidence of moral virtue and superiority.
我们民主党人总是把遭受打击和挫败看成道德高尚和地位优越的证明，希拉里和我一样对这种态度感到厌烦。
but prominent ecclesiastics, with some exceptions, continued to be men of inflexible moral principles.
但杰出的僧侣，除了少数例外，仍是些坚守道德原理的人。
Vice and disease, which cast such a sombre moral hue over the world, seemed to have hardly any existence for him.
罪恶与疾病，使这个世界郁忧阴暗，在他却几乎不存在似的。
Bettany Hughes: It could be, then, that this is just a moral fable, that the Atlantis story is just one grand political allegory?
贝特妮·休斯：就这样，可能亚特兰蒂斯就这样成为了一则关于道德的传说。那么，亚特兰蒂斯的故事只是一个伟大的政治寓言？
Several years before, as I remember it, Dr. Conwell had been tremendously intrigued by a true story, which had an ageless moral to it.
我记得，康威尔博士在几年前曾为一个真实的故事而深深着迷，因为它道出了一个永恒的道理。
But the price paid for this sort of intellectual pacification , is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
但是为知识方面这种平静所付出的代价却是牺牲掉人类心灵中的全部道德勇敢性。
Management apparently was aware of this practice and allowed it: a prime example, I suspect, of a moral gray zone.
管理层显然知道这些并允许了：一个道德灰色地带的典型例子，我怀疑。
He seems to have had some sort of intuitive moral sense that it was time for some bank to pay for its mistakes.
他似乎有某种天生的道德感，认为某些银行应该为它们所犯下的错误付出代价。
He never allows himself to lecture his readers or make severe moral points. His characters speak for themselves.
他从不让自己在读者面前高谈阔论或严肃说教，而是由书里的人物自己表白。
It's easy to sympathise: the erstwhile masters of the universe seem to have forgotten the meaning of both "moral" and "hazard" .
这很容易让人同情：过去的宇宙主宰者（mastersoftheuniverse）们似乎忘记了“道德”和“风险”的涵义。
And I maintain that the kind of formal moral obligation described in Kant's categorical imperative does not actually exist.
我主张在康德描述的绝对命令的形式道德义务事实上是不存在的。
However, Wiener said he had never seen these women in private, but there is no physical contact, without making any real harm moral thing.
不过，维纳称他从未私下见过这些女性，更没有肉体上的接触，没有做出任何实质有损道德之事。
American scientists and businessmen note enviously that religious and moral considerations do not seem to inhibit Indian biotechnologists.
美国科学家和商人有点嫉妒意味的指出，宗教和道义上的考量似乎并没有妨碍印度的生物学家们。
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